Better Pipe Organ Database

Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Opus 1190 (1952)

Memorial Methodist Church: Sanctuary
101 Randolph St.
Thomasville, NC

Images

2023-02-13 - Church exterior (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2015-11-30 - Chancel, console and organ chamber (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2014-12-07 - Church interior to rear (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2014-12-07 - Church interior to front (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
3 manuals
26 stops
29 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)

Notes

2008-05-23 - Identified through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: Extant; unaltered. -Database Manager

2018-08-11 - Updated by Norris Norwood, who has heard or played the organ. \r\nOriginal unaltered console has been moved from sanctuary and is being digitally updated and manuals\' key action and ivory keytops being repaired. Will update the entry when work is complete and console has been reinstalled. - Norris Norwood (Organist, MUMC Thomasville.) -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: From Allen Kinzey Date not recorded

Thomasville, North Carolina
Memorial Methodist Church

Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc.   Opus 1190   1949   3 manuals, 26 stops, 30 ranks
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           GREAT ORGAN                              SWELL ORGAN
       16' Rohrgedeckt          61               8' Stopped Diapason     68
        8' Principal            61               8' Viole de Gambe       68
        8' Flute Harmonique     61               8' Viole Celeste (TC)   56
        4' Prestant             61               4' Flute Triangulaire   68
    2 2/3' Quint                61                  Plein Jeu III       183
        2' Super Octave         61              16' Fagotto              pf
           Fourniture III      183               8' Trompette            68
           Chimes               pf               8' Hautbois             68
                                                 4' Clairon              68
           CHOIR ORGAN                              Tremulant
        8' Viola                68
        8' Concert Flute        68                  PEDAL ORGAN
        8' Dulciana             68              16' Contre Basse         32
        8' Unda Maris (TC)      56              16' Bourdon              32
        4' Koppelflöte          68              16' Rohrgedeckt          GT
    2 2/3' Nazard               61               8' Principal            32
        2' Blockflöte           61               8' Gedeckt              12
        8' Cromorne             68               4' Choralbass           12
           Tremulant                            16' Bombarde             pf
                                                 8' Trompette            pf


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-07-27]

Websites

Opus 1190: Memorial Methodist Church - (Aeolian-Skinner Archives website) Photograph, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)